Garment pressing and steaming device.



A. N. ROSENBLOOM.

GARMENT P'RESSING AND STEAMING DEVICE;

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 3. 1915.

1 0 Q o 3% a o Patented. Oct. 19, 1915.

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I L I I Rum-mus ABE IN. ROSENBLOOM, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

GARMENT PRESSING AND STEAMING DEVICE.

I Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Uctnltl, 191th.

Application. filed February 3. 1915.,. Serial No. 5.962.

To all whom it may concern:-

Be it known that I, ABE N. ROSENBLOOM,

a citizen of the United States, residing at.

Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Garment Pressing and Steaming Devices; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains' to make anduse the same.

'This invention relates to pressing and' steaming devices for tailors use and the like, and has for an object to produce, a dished ironing board having stretched over it a cover of flexible material supported by aerostatic pressure from within to provide a puffed surface upon which pressing and the like is performed.

A further object of the invention is to provide means whereby the pneumatic features of the device may be eliminated temporarily and steam admitted for the purpose of steaming goods for any purpose.

A further object of the invention is to provide a dished board or body member in the shape of a receptacle having over the top a cover which when used for pressing is a sheet of air-tight fabric, and when used for steaming is a sheet olt foraminous fabric with means for retaining the fabric upon the top of the receptacle and also means for controlling the-supply of air and steam to,

the receptacle under the fabric top.

With these and other objects in view the invention comprises certain novel construe tions, combinations and arrangement; of parts, as will be hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

In the drawings: Figure l is a top plan view of the device shown partly with and partly without the fabric top. Fig.2 is a transverse sectional view taken on line 2 2.

of Fig. 1 but showing only one-half of the device. Fig. 3 is a view in elevation of the steam and air conduit. I

Like characters of reference designate corresponding parts throughout the several views.

The improved pressing and steamin device which forms the subject-matter of this application comprises a cupped" or dished- .ll'OIllIlg board made 1n the shape of a re- 12 or against any material interposed be- I tween such gaskets and the hoop.

F or the purpose of forcing the hoop up against the gaskets a plurality of eccentric levers 14 are employed spaced about the exterior of, the receptacle and pivoted thereto as at 15. As shown in the drawings, a plurality of insets 16'are provided to accommodate the levers 14:,- although it is to be understood that such levers may be mounted in any usual and improved manner.

@ver the top of the receptacle and resting upon the flange 11 a fabric cover is employed. If it is to be employed for pressing, an impervious or air-tight sheet of fabric 17 is first placed upon the receptacle, and over that a porous or foraminous sheet 18 of the usual and ordinary type of fabric employed for such purposes. The edges of such sheets are passed under the flange l1 and are engaged between the gaskets 12 and the hoop 13 so that when pressure is applied to the hoop 13 by the levers 14- an air-tight joint is produced between the covering sheets and the receptacle. .7

'Within the receptacle provision is made for vintroducing steam or air. As shown in the drawings a hollow, perforate conduit 19 is employed extending throughout the length of the receptacle having at one end a nipple 20 extending beyond the outer periphery of the receptacle and connected by a cook 21 with a s earn supply pipe 2%. It i. is obvious that when steam is admitted through this conduit into the receptacle it fills the space beneath the fabric. When it is thus filled with and used for steaming purposes the impervious fabric 17 is removed and only the forarninous fabric 18 is employed. In this condition the cloth or a other fabric to be steamed is passed over or laid upon the foraminous surface 18 and the steam filtering through such foraminous fabric acts upon the cloth. \Vhen, however, the device is to be used for pressing, the cock 21 is closed and air under pressure admitted through an air pipe and valve 22 into the other end of the conduit 19. By reason of the partition 23 across the conduit, the air flows laterally out the perforations into the receptacle. \Vith the impervious fabric 17 in position the air under pressure within the receptacle supports the combined fabrics 17 and 18 and produces an upwardly bowed resilient surface upon which pressing is accomplished by the use of an iron or a goose in the usual manner.

Thus is produced what is in effect an ironing board or steaming table whose working surface is not only yielding as is the soft surface of the ordinary ironing board but has the flexibility which is imparted to it by pressure of air or steam from beneath, and as the fabric surface or covering is attached to the base or board around the edges only, such pressure will putt the fabric slightly at the center. The result is that when pieces of cloth or articles of clothing are drawn across this surface while being held in the operators hands at both sides of the board, they are brought into more intimate relation with the fabric 17 where it is putfed by the steam pressure than they would be if it were strictly flat. When the device is used-as a pressing table, the yielding and pufl'ed condition of the fabric sheet 18 produced by air trapped under pressure beneath it'has a great advantage, especially when pressing garments. It is well known to tailors and the like that garment seams or places there in where the fabric is two-ply .or three-ply,

are quite apt-to be singed and almost certain to be rendered shiny when pressed with a hot iron, even though the surface of the board is quite soft and care is employed in using the customary sponging cloth. This follows from the fact that such thick pertions of the garment get greater pressure than other portions, and the latter alongside a seam for instance do not assist in resisting the weight of the iron, so that all the pressure falls on the seam. With the property of air to carry pressure from one point to all other points within its containing chamber is made use'of and becomes especially advantageous in this device. The pufl'ed or arched condition of the cover sheet 18 also assists when the device is used for pressing, because it presents the cloth or garment to the iron at the center of the board and if the air pressure is properly gaged the working surface under pressure of the iron may flatten out to a plane but will never be depressed as with the ordinary ironing board.

I claim:

1. An ironing board having a dished upper face, a flexible cover drawn tightly over said board, and pneumatic means for sustaining the center of said cover with yielding force.

2. In a device of the class described, a receptacle, an impervious fabric cover applied over it,and manually controlled means forthe introduction of fluid under pressure to the receptacle.

3. In a device of the character described,

.the combination with a receptacle having an outwardly extending peripheral flange around its open top, and an impervious cover stretched over the receptacle and passing over and around the flange and inward beneath it, of means for clamping the cover to the flange, and manually controlled means for admitting a fluid agent under pressure to the interior of the receptacle.

4. An ironing board having a dished upper face, a flexlble cover drawn tightly over a said board, and means for selectively admitting steam and air under pressure beneath said cover.

, 5. In a device of the class described, a receptacle, pervious and'impervious fabric covers selectively applied over it, and manually controlled means for the introduction of air and steam under pressure to the receptacle.

6. In a device of the class described, a receptacle, pervious and impervious fabric covers selectively applied over it, and manually controlled means for the selective introduction of air and steam under pressure to the receptacle.

7. In a device of the character described, the combination with a receptacle having an outwardly extending peripheral flange around its opentop, gaskets in the lower face of said flange, a cover stretched over the receptacle and passing over and around the flange and inward beneath it, and a hoop surrounding the receptacle beneath said flange; of means for pressing said hoop upwardly at various points, for the purpose set forth.

8. In a device of the character described,

. the combination with a receptacle having an outwardly extending peripheral flange around 1ts open top, a cover stretched over,

ue'wee m the receptacle and passing over and around In testimony whereof I aflix my signature 7 the flange'and inward beneath it, and a in presence of two Witnesses.

hoop surrounding the receptacle beneath said flange; of a series of eccentric levers I ABE ROSENBLOOM' pivoted to the outside of the receptacle and Witnesses: adapted when turned to raise said hoop, for JAMES T. SHEERN,

the purpose set forth. WM. MCKEAN. 

